Ready Your Weapons

[singularjustice]

Who: N and anyone!
Location: Forest
Time: Morning.
Style: Either-or!
Status: Open to all!

There is a clearing not too into the forest that has obviously gotten some abuse in the past. It sits on the bottom of a hill and much of the vegetation has been burned away; the hill itself looks as if it has been gouged on occasion by something very large.

Right now, it may be obvious what the cause may have been: a large white dragon sits on the edge, though at the moment she seems contented to lounge on her belly, eyes half-closed. Nothing nearly so traumatic as destroying part of the hill is going on right now; instead she is watching over her trainer with a much smaller beast.

N has a sword in hand, though the scabbard is still on it, and he is all but dancing around, blocking as his Zorua lunges at him, swiping at him again and again.

It is all very serious until the fox Pokemon apparently has had enough. The Zorua jumps up and grabs ahold of the scabbard, pulling down on it with a playful growl.

"H-hey! This is not tug of war!" N protests, but he ends up laughing as he tries to wrest the sword away from him.

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[not_heavens_adam]

"Looks like he got tired of practice~" A man sat in a tree nearby, watching with a bit of a smirk.

He hadn't been there long, but his soundless entrance to the tree's branches had allowed him to watch the tail end of 'practice.' It was amusing, he'd never seen an animal like this one before. And the dragon was an entirely different story. Sure, he had been one of those knights who were supposed to slay dragons back in the day, but he'd never seen one before.

"I don't blame him~ 'All work and no fun,' as they say..."

[singularjustice]

N looked up at the voice, as did the two Pokemon. The Zorua dropped the sword in order to yip at Johnny curiously, causing his trainer to stumble back from the sudden lack of resistance.

"Ack!" He ended up on his rump in the grass, though it just made him laugh. "... I think I'm done too."

[not_heavens_adam]

He laughed, jumping down from the tree as if it were nothing and landing, with ease, in the grass. "You handle that sword pretty well. You aren't some knight-in-training, are you?"

Johnny walked up to N, offering his hand to pull the boy up.

[singularjustice]

N took his hand and stood even as he considered the question. "A knight in training? No, I don't think so. A friend has just been teaching me for a while now! He's really good."

[not_heavens_adam]

Johnny's face brightened as his hands went to his hips. "Oh? Well~ I won't cut in on anyone's fun but, if you'd like additional practice I'm always up for some fun~" Yeah, he was a full-on knight and very good with a sword, but helping someone get better through practice was fun! Besides, who knew, maybe N would prove to be formidable. That would be even more fun...

"It's been awhile since I had a decent partner aside from Cherry~"

[singularjustice]

"Really?" N's expression, too, brightened. "I'd like to! I like fighting new people!" It was a challenge, especially when he had gotten fairly used to fighting with Minato; however, they added in much more than sword-fighting.

[not_heavens_adam]

Johnny laughed, he liked this kid's energy. "That's the spirit. New challengers should always be exciting for a sword-fighter~ It marks a chance for development and sport~!"

Besides, the art of swordplay had always been one of his favorite things both when he was a knight and after he'd be changed into a vampire.

[singularjustice]

"I need that... I want to get better." To him, swordplay had become very much entangled in what he considered to be growing up: someday, he would be good enough to beat Minato (and perhaps even Motochika). If he could be equals with them, perhaps he could call himself an adult.